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[00:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Laws against destroying government property... - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:14] <exec> 08└─If your ordered to delete research data that was paid for with tax dollars. Just say no. You can be prosecuted by the next administration. All property of the gov is to be auctioned off after an evaluation of it's value. I see stuff that should be in the trash at Gov Auctions. The data you are told...
[00:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Captain Obvious is news in a screwed up world - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:36] <exec> 08└─umm. Ukraine?
[00:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Yes, - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:37] <exec> 08└─We all need to pay our fair share, however you want to decide fairness, BUT! BUT, how much of the problems right now were caused BY the U.S.? -Selling arms to Afghanistan so they could fight Russia, and then finding those weapons turned on them. -Disrupting elections in foreign countries (sounds odd...
[00:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:FYI Huntsville is a Liberal Bastion - 06Huntsville, AL is Awash in Broadband Competition (Why Comcast is So Afraid of Municipal Broadband) - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:05] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see your numbers on that. defense contracts In my experience, defense suppliers don't tend to have demographics greatly different from the general population (of the USA--not of Alabama). Where there is a skew among defense suppliers, again, IME, it's toward the Reactionary/Authoritarian...
[00:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''we'' - 06Huntsville, AL is Awash in Broadband Competition (Why Comcast is So Afraid of Municipal Broadband) - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:09] <exec> 08└─What's this "we" shit, paleface? [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Agnostic - 06Organic Molecules Found on Ceres - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:47] <exec> 08└─I mean, we can't produce abiogenesis, so it seems to me that for it to come about by accident must take a monumental bit of coincidence.
[00:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Where should the line be? - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:36] <exec> 08└─False. The US cities with the most violent crime are those with the most stringent gun laws, such as Chicago. You obviously haven't actually done the research. I have.
[00:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Unfortunately, they say everything is a sign.. - 06Predicted Decline in Ocean Oxygen Levels Has Been Detected - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:49] <exec> 08└─Ah, thank you for confirming, in words that could not be clearer, that you are holding an irrational belief and are not interested in rational discourse.
[00:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Unfortunately, they say everything is a sign.. - 06Predicted Decline in Ocean Oxygen Levels Has Been Detected - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:51] <exec> 08└─Notice that all of these are extreme warming events. maxwell demon made a stronger claim: The words you're looking for are "extreme weather". Increased swings between record cold and hot weather indicate that the climate is getting more UNSTABLE. You know, like things swing left and right before top...
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[01:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Unilever Magnum - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:13] <exec> 08└─Which is a kind of chocolate, not to be confused with Trojan Magnum condoms...although there is a curious connection there, if you have an imagination about chocolate.
[01:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:22] <exec> 08└─Still, there’s reason to believe that the question of which party is “the party of science” (assuming either party qualifies), has not been settled with finality.
[01:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:24] <exec> 08└─Neither party is "the party of science". Both are corrupt to the core and will do and say whatever they believe will get them ahead.
[01:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 1957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:26] <exec> 08└─While the Democrats are no paragons of virtue, truth, and honesty, the Republicans are definitely anti-science. Facts interfere with propaganda. The Republicans have embraced propaganda and rejected countervailing facts. Further, they've done this on settled issues and unimportant issues, trying to...
[01:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:28] <exec> 08└─And yet, the president won because he is anti-immigrant, and promised to make america great again by taking home the jobs... Or something like that. So, the only thing the science loving loosers of the political battle would have had to give is what people actually want: a bit of racism and protecti...
[01:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 1666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:30] <exec> 08└─"The Republicans neither know nor care where they're taking civilization." Let's correct that statement, try to make it more accurate. "Neither major US political party has any clue where they are taking civilization - all that matters to either of them is POWER!" Now, if you want to concentrate on...
[01:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Eeeexcellent. - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:33] <exec> 08└─I know you all are thinking of climate studies but I'm thinking race vs. intelligence and religion vs. violence.
[01:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Coolway and just be spent on internal so - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:48] <exec> 08└─I've heard a reasonable theory that Europe is being deliberately weakened by the migrant invasion so that it would not present a threat to American hegemony...however, that theory is in conflict with recommending the building up of EU defense -- maybe someday to the point of having an EU military. O...
[01:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defend from who? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:55] <exec> 08└─I did not say it was a good idea. I did not say it was not going to end. I was also not disagreeing with you rather just answering your question in an albeit generic/generalised way. I also agree with you on China. Most people miss it because they only feed the noisy chick but China is better at the...
[01:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:00] <exec> 08└─"is this due to the rise of the military industrial complex that Truman(?) warned about?" Eisenhower would be the president you are thinking of there.
[01:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling Darwin - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:14] <exec> 08└─In Canada, supposedly, Muslims want the right to not have to wear helmets on a motorcycle. I say fine, so long as THEY have to pay the hospital bill and it DOESN'T come in as free Medicare. Be stupid somewhere else or pay for the consequences yourself.
[01:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:in Greed we trust - 06Huntsville, AL is Awash in Broadband Competition (Why Comcast is So Afraid of Municipal Broadband) - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:28] <exec> 08└─It becomes trickier when there's infrastructure involved. Here, locally, there's nothing worse than the feeling of your monopolist corporate utility arbitrarily jacking up power and gas rates 10% year after year for no reason other than muh shareholders and because they can. Cable monopolies ain't g...
[01:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FYI Huntsville is a Liberal Bastion - 06Huntsville, AL is Awash in Broadband Competition (Why Comcast is So Afraid of Municipal Broadband) - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:32] <exec> 08└─> first-hand observation Actually, that is exactly what my observation is. I am a former defense contractor and we used to deal with people out of huntsville ALL the time. Your reference to NASA is hair-splitting. But my personal experience was not with NASA people either.
[01:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''we'' - 06Huntsville, AL is Awash in Broadband Competition (Why Comcast is So Afraid of Municipal Broadband) - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:37] <exec> 08└─you are about as tiresome as efueld tonight
[01:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:fun anecdote... - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 2036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:35] <exec> 08└─What I am saying is that Linux is pulled in many directions by people who have no sense of "fitness for purpose" and even less concept of something being "mission critical". Because of some strange religion, the developers involved with Linux seem not to see the benefits of a centralised orgnisation...
[01:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:decade win free - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:05] <exec> 08└─If you want people to take you seriously stop saying 'Windoze'. It makes you look like you are 12 and have the reasoning of the same. There are many reasons to use either eco-system. 'just cause I dont like M$' is not one of them. If all public governments put funding into the FOSS community, the to...
[01:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:''happy with their Linux-based workstations'' - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:09] <exec> 08└─It seems to be the OPPOSITE of pork to me. The FOSS system kept support and money for that local.
[01:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not For You - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:36] <exec> 08└─Which is a kinda dumb thing to say. Interest rates will fuck you in the long run, but in the short term they don't make a huge difference. For example, a 4 year loan of $15,000 has $362/month payment at 7.5% A 15% APR bumps that up $417/month.
[01:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:muzzle loaders - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:33] <exec> 08└─Not true. Take no legal advice from Runaway.
[01:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where should the line be? - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─Correct number: United States Crime rate: 48.76 Safety Index:51.24                                                         Khazakhstan 48.29 51.71 Well, at least the US is only slightly more criminal and less safe that Khazakhistan!
[01:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Where should the line be? - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:04] <exec> 08└─What did I say about exercise in dishonesty? You can't compare a continent spanning nation to some little fuckistan. Compare to EUROPE, not to one dinky country. Don't be a dink.
[01:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where should the line be? - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:06] <exec> 08└─Admit it, Runaway, you have no idea where Khazakhistan is, let alone how large of a country it is, do you?
[01:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Where should the line be? - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:13] <exec> 08└─The US cities with the most violent crime are those with the most stringent gun laws, such as Chicago.
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[02:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Unilever Magnum - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:23] <exec> 08└─"Heartbrand, Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, and Klondike ice cream" is meant to be read using the same neurons.
[02:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Unilever is cost driven and horrible. - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:24] <exec> 08└─Unilever's drive to cut costs has destroyed several of their product lines. Their 'new simple' recipe for all their margarines? (Country Crock, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, etc) Costs less to make, but the stuff no longer melts! And it tastes bad, and all of it tastes the same. Sales are down. B...
[02:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Capitalism at work - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:26] <exec> 08└─Another day, another too big to fail mega-conglomerate.
[02:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02racism - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:39] <exec> 08└─The word doesn't mean what you think it means. The word is cheapened every time it is used incorrectly. I own a bunch of stuff. My closest three neighbors are all the same race as me. If my neighbors take my stuff, is it racist of me to call them theives, and to take them to court to get my stuff ba...
[02:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:racism - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:40] <exec> 08└─bro, it was sarcasm. you should know me better by now than lecturing me on the meaning of the r-word... but then, I guess you are sarcastic too...
[02:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:racism - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:42] <exec> 08└─Alright - apologies. I often respond to a comment, taking it at face value. I don't always look to see who I am responding to. So, the sarcasm was missed. Obviously, our positions are pretty close on this particular issue. ;^)
[02:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:45] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, Trump won because he was NOT Hillary.
[02:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:47] <exec> 08└─give is what people actually want: a bit of racism and protectionism.
[02:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Neither major US political party'' - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:50] <exec> 08└─The sooner that everyone realizes that their choices are NOT binary, the better off we'll all be. To make that truly meaningful will require that all election campaigns for public office be publicly funded. This will require an amendment to the Constitution. Anyone who isn't working on that is part...
[02:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Laws against destroying government property... - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:53] <exec> 08└─We are being told this is going on? Is it? Or is it hyperbole? We at this point can not tell who is saying the truth. Our entire news system has been devolved to pure tabloid style hit pieces. Trump himself is actually creating fake newsworthy items to find out who he can trust in his own organizati...
[02:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Homophones can be a bitch - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:55] <exec> 08└─stuff that should be in the trash I hope you mean "disposed of properly after being run through a shredder". If your ordered to your == belongs to you you're == you are it's value it's == it is; it has its == belongs to it (No pronoun ever requires an apostrophe to make it possessive: my, mine, your...
[02:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eeeexcellent. - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:59] <exec> 08└─but I'm thinking race vs. intelligence and religion vs. violence.
[02:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:inhumanity? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:13] <exec> 08└─Cannibalism involving indian soldiers http://www.ibtimes.co.uk [ibtimes.co.uk] Russian rape of Germany https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Opperation Waterfall https://en.m.wikipe...
[02:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Coolway and just be spent on internal so - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:19] <exec> 08└─Its not ridiculously large. Defense the major Constitutional mandated responsibility of the US Government. Its only about 3.6% of GDP [wikipedia.org]. If the US wasn't pulling the largest share in NATO [quoracdn.net] the defense budget wouldn't have to be so large. No NATO country even even spends e...
[02:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Coolway and just be spent on internal so - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:22] <exec> 08└─After common-core I agree with the Trumpian viewpoint that the Department of Education should be abolished entirely.
[02:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Defend from who? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:28] <exec> 08└─the megacorporations moving to China, or anyplace else with no regulation, no taxes, but lots of slave labor.
[02:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Defend from who? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:30] <exec> 08└─That's why megacorporations should have been regulated several decades ago. When I was a child, I read futuristic stories of corporations exercising more power than any nation could. I thought that was kinda crazy at the time. I had to exercise that "suspended disbelief" to enjoy the stories. Today,...
[02:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:The must have better drivers. - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:44] <exec> 08└─This is probably an unpopular opinion here, but I am a motorist first and a cyclist/pedestrian second. When I cross a crosswalk I jog across it, because when that motorist is in the middle of the intersection for their unprotected left turn waiting for your ass to walk out of their path, the safer i...
[02:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Top-tier life advice -all yours- absolutely fre - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:20] <exec> 08└─The reason you should NOT get soused and command a vehicle of any sort is your and others life/limb, not the bloody likelyhood of tickets you bourke.
[02:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Expected - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:29] <exec> 08└─The program resulted in about 700,000 cars being destroyed, most of which were perfectly serviceable vehicles. Sure, there were a few real clunkers in there, but since the program required a new vehicle be purchased and most people who can afford a new vehicle don't drive clunkers (they may drive ol...
[02:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score:2) 02My recommendation for anyone arriving in the US - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:33] <exec> 08└─When i get asked or learn that anyone is searching for a new car, I always recommend to check the rental agencies. All of them have program to get rid of their car after a year of so of service. The prices are final, so no negotiation Bull*** and they handle the paperwork. I've had 2 good experience...
[02:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:muzzle loaders - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.quora.com/Are-modern-muzzleloaders-legally-considered-firearms-in-the-U-S [quora.com] https://www.jobsforfelonshub.com [jobsforfelonshub.com] Open mouth, insert foot, AC. Note that I specifically stated that some local jurisdictions may have passed more restricti...
[02:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Where should the line be? - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:41] <exec> 08└─http://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/united-states/kazakhstan [mylifeelsewhere.com] And, again, you're trying to compare the entire US to one nation that is only as large as one of our regions. Worse, Kazakhstan isn't even part of Europe, so now you're trying to compare apples to s...
[02:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Where should the line be? - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:49] <exec> 08└─"the obvious rebuttal is that that is not why" Find some proof to support your "obvious" rebuttal. "Besides, you are not very wise" Assuming the name of a well known philosopher doesn't make you wise, nor does it qualify you to judge other people's wisdom. There IS one obvious correlation that holds...
[02:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Where should the line be? - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:51] <exec> 08└─More hillbilly logic, Runaway? Seriously? The lowest crime statistics are found in those areas with the most lenient gun laws, and the highest crime statistics are found in those areas with the strictest gun control laws.
[02:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Where should the line be? - 06Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:53] <exec> 08└─Please, try to familiarize yourself with rational thought. It isn't necessary that you make contact with reality, but you could get close enough to have a shouting match with those of us who live in reality.
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[03:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02For comparison... - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:14] <exec> 08└─For comparison, the largest recorded iceberg [wikipedia.org] in 2005 was 4,200 square miles.
[03:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Not out Yet - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:16] <exec> 08└─As far as I'm aware, this shelf hasn't yet calved. Even if it does, scientists aren't sure whether or not it will refreeze (and then just go back to "normal"), or separate entirely from the shelf.
[03:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02So, paleo diet? - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:18] <exec> 08└─If you or I had shed this much weight this fast we'd be heralded in the appropriate newsletters/email lists. Antarctica does it and people throw shit fits? Either I'm missing something here, or I'm dumber than I thought.
[03:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:So, paleo diet? - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:20] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go with the last part. What do you think "I'm sorry I'm not sorry" means?
[03:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Unilever Magnum - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:30] <exec> 08└─Unilevers Magnum is a chocolate? It's a series of icecream as far as I know. Usually vanilla with a chocolate cover - there are many different once, white, dark, coffee flavored, with nuts on and nuts in and I think there is even a pink one.
[03:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unilever is cost driven and horrible. - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:33] <exec> 08└─Now YOU may be willing to pay a bit more for quality food, but Joe Sixpack over there most certainly thinks that paying 20 cents more for food so that it won't kill him or make him obese is a violation of his god-given right to stuff his face with as much food as possible for the lowest possible cos...
[03:07:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:45] <exec> 08└─Neither party is "the party of science". Both are corrupt to the core and will do and say whatever they believe will get them ahead.
[03:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Trump won because he was NOT Hillary'' - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:53] <exec> 08└─...and because USAians have the attention span of a gnat. For example, letting the dude get away with calling an entire group of people criminals and rapists because he followed it with "and some, I assume, are good". ...then there's allowing him to get away with flip-flopping on minimum wage 3 time...
[03:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02look at it like this... - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:56] <exec> 08└─...if I take my own origin, and look at the history of my country, it is full with turmoil and blood. Before WW1 and 2, that was the last nail in the coffin, ther was the enromous sacrifice it took to push back the turks... And probably, the people who died protecting their land felt the same sorrow...
[03:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:00] <exec> 08└─Whole story sounds like Fake News if you ask me. http://www.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] http://dailysignal.com [dailysignal.com...
[03:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great news! - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:07] <exec> 08└─I, for one, didn't read tfa or even any part of the posted story apart from the headline, but I srtill think it's great! Too often, scientists believe that their narrow expertise and often incorrect or incomplete research justifies direct interference in politics. I sincerely hope that scientists t...
[03:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:inhumanity? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:23] <exec> 08└─still, you dont make sense. you came to europe, spilled american blood, left us with a cold ware that made the old problems here worse... and left us with the fucking jews... u want me to thank you? you just made things worse.
[03:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:The must have better drivers. - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:52] <exec> 08└─here, I avoid jogging because I don't want to be moving faster than expected through the intersection. Doubly true if I am mounted on my bike. That said, I don't exactly shuffle either.
[03:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not hopeful - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:00] <exec> 08└─The pavement lights up, not the phone, silly.
[03:09:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03moondoctor [2963] 02Through the looking glass - 06Huntsville, AL is Awash in Broadband Competition (Why Comcast is So Afraid of Municipal Broadband) - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:21] <exec> 08└─*Stop The Presses* A free market breaks out in the USA. At this point it's like The Onion of The Onion or some shit.
[03:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Disturbing? - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Fifth Circuit - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:04] <exec> 08└─I agree with your sentiment, but I'm going to say that I think this is something that would be pretty impossible to assume their intent upon.
[03:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:fun anecdote... - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:23] <exec> 08└─Unless you use some retro stuff like Mate, or xfce or trinity, they are worthless. Random crashes, random stuff changed, random things not working or stop working for equally random reason... And it takes years to get them stable... And then, they are thrown out, and new random shit takes over.
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[04:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02To cmn32480 - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:17] <exec> 08└─What is your purpose in stripping out #FragmentIdentifiers in URLs after I have made an effort to include those? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That iceberg was clearly asking for it. - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:18] <exec> 08└─I mean seriously, if it didn't want to be turned into salt water it shouldn't have been so close to melting temperature. Victimless crime.
[04:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That iceberg was clearly asking for it. - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:20] <exec> 08└─Better yet it shouldn't be sitting IN salt water, talk about an accident waiting to happen!
[04:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Unilever Magnum - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:32] <exec> 08└─Instructions unclear. Dick covered in chocolate, girlfriend pregnant.
[04:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defend from who? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah because if they went forward with open armed conflict the entire world (except a few nutjob countries) would annihilate them SO FAST! Right now they're trying to gain enough control to let them operate on the same level as nation states.
[04:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Not all sunshine and rainbows. - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 3717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:37] <exec> 08└─I would agree with Mattis, the 2% recommendation should be fulfilled by all that want to be in NATO. From what I have read it was downplayed a bit just the day after, included in that I have seen that Norway has already said they won't bring it up to 2% any time soon - their current 2020 projection...
[04:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Calling Darwin - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:54] <exec> 08└─That's not surprising. Head wounds in particular bleed a lot. Not to mention the mangling that happens when thousands of pounds of car run over bones. That being said, fatal crashes are most often the result of either intoxication or inattention. Ideally, everybody would be paying attention when app...
[04:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Disturbing? - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Fifth Circuit - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:01] <exec> 08└─The Founders would have been completely agnostic on a question of dealing with state or local police, since the original Constitution (except in a few places) has almost no guidance or restrictions on how state law can function in this regard.
[04:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Disturbing? - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Fifth Circuit - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:02] <exec> 08└─That is a very reasonable response. Thank you for that.
[04:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:fun anecdote... - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:22] <exec> 08└─You may like BSD. It is considered a bug if a change does not include documentation.
[04:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:fun anecdote... - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:23] <exec> 08└─I got stuck with linux for "romantic" reasons =) Was used to ntfs and ext2(3), but when I learned that xfs comes from SGI, i wanted a piece of the cookie, and reinstalled on it. It was some Vectorlinux version in 2004ish... For me, at least, the harddrive sounded differently: the clicks were softer,...
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[05:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Hard hitting reporting! - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:26] <exec> 08└─It took Leon Panetta to tell them that a guy who LIVES IN RUSSIA might have ties to Russia???
[05:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Maybe autoremoved against tracking - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:38] <exec> 08└─It seems a lot of sites are using #randomcrap to implement tracking. So maybe they got autoremoved. But if this time they weren't a tracker, but proper tag-with-id/a-with-name for a given point in the document, the autoremover was too "smart".
[05:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Hmmmm - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:42] <exec> 08└─A Manhattan sized chunk, 10 times the size of Manhattan?!? Did it stuff a sock down it's pants?
[05:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Defend from who? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:56] <exec> 08└─Dr. Mutwara's first language probably isn't English, but he's still a good read. https://southernafrican.news [southernafrican.news] You might do a little web searching on blood diamonds, along with the nations listed in Dr. Mutwara's art...
[05:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:01] <exec> 08└─Thanks... Didn't feel like Googling on the tablet. ;)
[05:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:fun anecdote... - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:49] <exec> 08└─I am trying XFS on my new cryptocurrency node. (Linux based -- thanks to a recommendation in the recent poll) Moving my day-to-day computer and backup server (offline! -- sneakernet) to FreeBSD. That way I can try ZFS (and a somewhat planned system -- and avoid systemd).
[05:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:fake taste - 06Lab-Grown Pork Closer to Reality - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:51] <exec> 08└─> [...] using 1-2 orders of magnitude less water, energy, and land [...] According to one estimate, a pig can gain 1 kg of weight by eating 4 kg of grain: The efficiency with which various animals convert grain into protein varies widely. With cattle in feedlots, it takes roughly 7 kilograms of gra...
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[06:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How do you spell... - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:20] <exec> 08└─"SLOW NEWS DAYS?"
[06:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02very old news, really - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:21] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in_California [wikipedia.org] California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states since its admission to the United States in 1850[1...
[06:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:For comparison... - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:31] <exec> 08└─Meh. I wouldn't worry. It will melt soon and no longer pose a threat...
[06:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:To cmn32480 - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:38] <exec> 08└─I try to strip all the cruft off links. You are NOT special.
[06:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:To cmn32480 - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:40] <exec> 08└─That's not cruft, you nitwit. Talk to the other editors to find out how ignorant you are. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Hmmmm - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:46] <exec> 08└─I had to read TFS about 3 times as well. The Manhattan sized chunk is only the most recent piece to break off.
[06:08:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 1957 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:10] <exec> 08└─While the Democrats are no paragons of virtue, truth, and honesty, the Republicans are definitely anti-science. Facts interfere with propaganda. The Republicans have embraced propaganda and rejected countervailing facts. Further, they've done this on settled issues and unimportant issues, trying to...
[06:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02On a page without HTTPS? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:28] <exec> 08└─This is putting people at risk.
[06:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:inhumanity? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:44] <exec> 08└─Why do you othink all those 10+ story buildings, that the evil commies constructed, were filled as soon as they finished?
[06:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No more blackjack and hose - 06U.S. CDC Labs Shut Down Over Air Hose Concerns - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:34] <exec> 08└─It's high security time!
[06:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:fake taste - 06Lab-Grown Pork Closer to Reality - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:53] <exec> 08└─I said water, energy, and land. As in the production can be done in a building covering 1% of the land area that would be required for raising cattle. Much less energy because you can have meat grown closer to where people live, requiring less distance to ship. Low greenhouse gas emissions because t...
[06:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:fake taste - 06Lab-Grown Pork Closer to Reality - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:55] <exec> 08└─If you are going to be eating mushrooms and a vegan diet, there is no downside in others replacing livestock with lab grown meat, because you won't be eating it anyway. Right?
[06:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Better idea - 06Lab-Grown Pork Closer to Reality - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:03] <exec> 08└─Seasoned with Human papillomavirus [wikipedia.org].
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[07:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:the RED MENACE STRIKE AGAIN - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:18] <exec> 08└─Just like we import the fine Russian silk of which Marinelli is a connoisseur. What? Oh, not *that* kind of tie. Got it.
[07:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Hard hitting reporting! - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:20] <exec> 08└─Ever heard of Fort Ross? It's on the California coast and is evidence that the Russians HAVE BEEN HERE! Time to wear our tin foil hats!
[07:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Same old, same old - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:24] <exec> 08└─The Tsar supported the Confederacy when they pulled the same stunt. At least that is what I read on the alt-history webpage I found with the google. There was also something about Nazis.
[07:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:To cmn32480 - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:40] <exec> 08└─I'm using a browser window that is probably somewhat smaller than most readers, and fonts that are probably much larger than other readers'. When I opened the edited link, http://www.climatecentral.org [climatecentral.org] it showed me the Climate Central logo a...
[07:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:racism - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:14] <exec> 08└─Runaway! Hanging with the White brother! Nazi dude! Anti-semite! One of those people who is a little more anti-semite than the Donald, poor, tiny Donald. Runaway collaborating with the enemies of America! Fucking Nazis! Treason, I smell treason.
[07:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score:3, Insightful) 02We have community fiber in SLC - 06Huntsville, AL is Awash in Broadband Competition (Why Comcast is So Afraid of Municipal Broadband) - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:48] <exec> 08└─It is great. 12 isp compete. No caps, no limits, no throttling. Gigabit up and down. customer service is fantastic. Why? Because changing isp is a simple phone call. Instantaneous and no interruption of service at all. True competition. Comcast and Clearwire keep running disinformation campaigns eve...
[07:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:typical - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:18] <exec> 08└─"Do not criticize giants?" Do you realize you just said "might makes right" in different terms? Piss off, you sociopathic oxygen thief.
[07:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Usury - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 2034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:51] <exec> 08└─That they do, all too much... The problem is now we are forced to pay usury to the banking elite, which never touched a shovel or drafting table, yet reap the usury of that which they are chartered to simply print up. In a way, I am just waiting for the FED to ratchet up rates again, just like Berna...
[07:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Not For You - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:58] <exec> 08└─Not really. An extra $55 a month is significant. There's a reason why vehicle defaults have risen back to the level they were at back in 2008, at the height of that recession.
[07:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Not For You - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:00] <exec> 08└─And to follow up, some of the scummier used car dealers use this to increase their profits, by taking a significant down payment, then with monthly payments they know the person can't cover, after a couple months they get to repossess the car and sell it again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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[08:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02IEEE Certified - 06Gates Foundation Reaches Deal to Publish Articles in Paywalled Science Journals - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:23] <exec> 08└─Internationally Embrace Extend Extinguish
[08:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IEEE Certified - 06Gates Foundation Reaches Deal to Publish Articles in Paywalled Science Journals - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:24] <exec> 08└─I remember when I was in High School, in science fairs, the IEEE and AAAS type people always made themselves visible, as if they were PROMOTING science and trying to get kids like me interested in engineering. In my case, they succeeded. Kinda like that song that started off about a kid dreaming of...
[08:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02welcome - 06Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-dormant Life - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:32] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our new long-dormant microbial overlords.
[08:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:welcome - 06Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-dormant Life - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:35] <exec> 08└─Serious, have these people never seen a movie from the 80s?
[08:07:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02very old news, really - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 1112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:46] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in_California [wikipedia.org] California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states since its admission to the United States in 1850[1...
[08:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Former intelligence officials say - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:49] <exec> 08└─Names and quotes, or it didn't happen
[08:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''The text after the # is not sent to the server'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:06] <exec> 08└─I've seen that claimed before. OTOH, as AC #468854 notes above, some sites are adding an identifier to the URL they return as what, at first glance, appears to be a #FragmentIdentifier. The ones I've noticed have a dot right after the crunch, then a 8-character or so alphanumeric string. ...so I'm s...
[08:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism at work - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:25] <exec> 08└─Merging has been in fashion for CEOs. "My merger's bigger than yours" is a lot easier than opening their zippers. Whether any merger above 30 billion makes any sense for the customers is utterly irrelevant. CEOs crave it, banks push for it, and shareholders are still in that mood...
[08:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 4036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:50] <exec> 08└─Yes indeed, let's try to be accurate. I disagree with the assertion that both parties are the same, empty of all drive other than the lust for power. A problem with the idea of conservatives being those who wish to maintain the status quo or make changes slowly, is that it is an illusion. We haven't...
[08:09:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02Re:Coolway and just be spent on internal so - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 903 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:21] <exec> 08└─Depends how you look at it - there any any number of ways to slice and dice the numbers. The US is getting upset over whether or not other NATO members might not be meeting their obligations of spending 2% of their GDP on defence, so for the US to be spending almost 20% of its total central budget (...
[08:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe NATO should ban the selling of weapons... Bet the US would pull out of NATO quick!
[08:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:The must have better drivers. - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:50] <exec> 08└─(especially Blacks)
[08:09:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jIyajbe [5615] 02Re:Calling Darwin - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:53] <exec> 08└─I used to be an EMT. I have been to car vs. pedestrian accidents, including fatalities. None of the drivers who had just killed a person were saying "Good, another idiot out of the gene pool." They were shocked, horrified, and traumatized; and, usually sobbing. It is something they will remember all...
[08:12:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aclarke [2049] 02Re:Top-tier life advice -all yours- absolutely fre - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 1163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:37] <exec> 08└─Some more advice. Never* borrow money to finance a depreciating asset. In my foolish youth I paid car loans a few times, but unless I have the cash, and I invest it instead in lieu of a 0% loan, I don't understand why I would ever do that again. It's better to buy a $2000 car and have the internal s...
[08:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Top-tier life advice -all yours- absolutely fre - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 4004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:39] <exec> 08└─I went through all that when I settled on paying right at $4000 for my 1994 Ford E-350 Diesel van. 7.3L IDI engine, E4OD transmission. Originally, I had my heart set on one of those Mercedes-Benz "Sprinter" vans. I did a lot of internet research. Turns out it seems like there are scores of very unh...
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[09:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I willl just leave this here.. - 06Gates Foundation Reaches Deal to Publish Articles in Paywalled Science Journals - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:29] <exec> 08└─For all you researchers. Good selection from IEEE.... http://libgen.io [libgen.io] http://https.sci-hub.io [sci-hub.io] http://scholar.google.co.nz [google.co.nz]
[09:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:To cmn32480 - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:08] <exec> 08└─You mean the guy who has edited more than 2500 stories over the last two years? I'm pretty sure he does precisely what he means to.
[09:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Hmmmm - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:16] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I see Antarctica as the freezer box of this planet, and like the freezer box in your house, unless defrosted, will cover itself in ice by stripping the air around it of moisture. If this water was not returned to the ocean by the mechanism of calving, eventually all the water on the planet...
[09:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmmm - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:18] <exec> 08└─What is a manhattan and how many football fields would that be? Or i don't know use some sort of meaningful measure like cubic km.
[09:09:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02Re:inhumanity? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 1403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:16] <exec> 08└─Cannibalism involving indian soldiers http://www.ibtimes.co.uk [ibtimes.co.uk] Russian rape of Germany https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Opperation Waterfall https://en.m.wikipe...
[09:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Expected - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:54] <exec> 08└─700,000 vehicles were destroyed, and the Congressmen who did this still have their jobs. What does this tell you? We still refer to them as "the honorable... ". Even after they do stuff like this. And still vote for them? No wonder we have such a mess in Washington.
[09:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Pudding and Proof - 06Organic Molecules Found on Ceres - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:07] <exec> 08└─I was only trying to inject a little bit of humor by a bad pun. In which case, by "pudding", I meant any organic goo [scientificamerican.com] that might be building up over eons of accretion of denser organic molecules. Miller, along with his colleague Harold Urey, used a sparking device to mimic a...
[09:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Agnostic - 06Organic Molecules Found on Ceres - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:14] <exec> 08└─Also, the transit time of any communications. Do we even yet have the power to transmit that far, the sensitivity to detect their transmissions, or the knowledge of what to look for?
[09:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:fake taste - 06Lab-Grown Pork Closer to Reality - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:40] <exec> 08└─I said water, energy, and land. As in the production can be done in a building covering 1% of the land area that would be required for raising cattle.
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[10:08:02] <exec> 08└─Clearly, quantity and quality can lack overlap. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[10:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''part of one of Nature's cycles'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:11] <exec> 08└─...which has been exacerbated by humans burning stuff. has been going on long before we came on the scene ...but never at the current rate. Earth Temperature Timeline [xkcd.com] ...and you haven't mentioned that there are giant cities built near sea level on coasts. Accepting sea level rise as inevi...
[10:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmmm - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:14] <exec> 08└─Well, first you take Gabriël Fahrenheit's wife, and ask her if you could please stick a thermometer in her armpit ... Then you use the resulting temperature scale to discuss a humongous chunk of melting ice. It's all quite logical(*), really! (*) in the USA, Micronesia, Palau, Belize, Bahamas and C...
[10:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:39] <exec> 08└─Especially one of them.
[10:09:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Coolway and just be spent on internal so - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:21] <exec> 08└─That's a ridiculously large proportion. I'm not sure what you think people expect that it is.
[10:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fun anecdote... - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:27] <exec> 08└─Ribbon. End of argument.
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[11:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02In better gravitational wave detector news... - 06Europe's "Virgo" Gravitational Wave Detector Suffers From "Microcracks" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:10] <exec> 08└─Here's a more positive gravitational wave detector story: Gravity probe exceeds performance goals [bbc.co.uk]
[11:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Big deal - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:49] <exec> 08└─California Secession Leader has Russian Ties
[11:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmmm - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:18] <exec> 08└─It's because of Trump making Manhattan great again. ;-)
[11:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Unilever is cost driven and horrible. - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:32] <exec> 08└─After what Kraft did to Cadbury's and other companies it bought (ruined the products by making them inedible), I wouldn't have much faith in Kraft takeover of any company. Merger's rarely seem to work out well for the product and customer, but they do seem to generate lots of cash for the management...
[11:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Coolway and just be spent on internal so - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:30] <exec> 08└─"but by GDP the biggest spenders on the relevant Wikipedia page are Oman (16.2%) and Saudia Arabia (13.7%)." I'm not sure what point you are trying to make but by every metric you list, there is no NATO member spending more (GDP or per-capita) than the US which is Mattis' point.
[11:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:My Pothole - 06Ford Developing Pothole Alert System for Drivers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:45] <exec> 08└─Cut up a rubber mat and place it on top of the lid.
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[12:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:42] <exec> 08└─Your welcome.
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[13:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:welcome - 06Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-dormant Life - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:52] <exec> 08└─The Thing was an alien organism, though. Smilla's Sense of Snow was a long dormant terrestrial parasite. On the other hand the Naica caves are incredibly hot and acidic, so closer to an aliien environment than Earth. But Smilla had a lot of Inuit, which sounds like Klingon. Meh, could go either way.
[13:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:the RED MENACE STRIKE AGAIN - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:02] <exec> 08└─It's really only a couple of small areas that give the rest of the state a bad name. San Francisco and Beverly Hills/Hollywood could be excised like rectal polyps and health would return to the organism.
[13:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Big deal - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:11] <exec> 08└─No, but we can conclude, "chafed, holey, and exposed."
[13:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:''part of one of Nature's cycles'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 2754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:38] <exec> 08└─Interesting chart. I question the amount of height the sea level is claimed to change, as the oceans are already a very big place and changing their level is going to require an awful lot of water. Same concern I had regarding the Biblical flood of Noah's time. I have a helluva hard time accounting...
[13:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alien life - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:42] <exec> 08└─The highly advanced civilization living inside the planet at the south pole is doing all this. They are going to come back and take over the planet. They went underground because the atmospheric conditions did not suit them and they were dying. There were a lot of expeditions to the south pole a few...
[13:12:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Why? - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:06] <exec> 08└─The study pushing it is by a Microsoft backed consulting company. The end result will be higher downtimes, higher costs, malware, etc, but by then Microsoft will have its money, the people pushing the decision will be voted out with nice bank accounts, and it will be too expensive to switch back.
[13:12:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02What you said is true, BUT... - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 768 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:09] <exec> 08└─The Original Submission [soylentnews.org] is far more interesting than what made made it to the S/N front page. That does mention Accenture. More specifically, it mentions how a minority in the current city gov't have rammed this through as well as how their agenda IGNORES the recommendation made by...
[13:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:typical - 06Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:30] <exec> 08└─You should be first to be purged.
[13:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Usury - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:02] <exec> 08└─The problem is not usury. Banks provide a service, just like any other shopkeeper. A retailer does not create anything, but they serve a valuable function by providing a connection between producers of goods and consumers. Similarly, a bank provides a mechanism whereby the profits from producing goo...
[13:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Usury - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:03] <exec> 08└─If I go to the store for a box of nuts, and they don't have any, I simply don't get any nuts. If I go to the bank for a box of dollars, they simply "create a ledger entry" that I owe them a box of dollars and then some, and its now up to me to get yet even more dollars to repay the debt. Combine th...
[13:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Not For You - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:12] <exec> 08└─If you have over $400 in disposable income, including a buffer zone so that unexpected expenses won't make the payments impossible, then you can probably get the loan at 7.5%. If you can't, then you're going to default on the 15% loan. The lender knows this, and expects to milk you at a high profit...
[13:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Not For You - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:14] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as a "worse rate" than no loan at all.
[13:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Top-tier life advice -all yours- absolutely fre - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:28] <exec> 08└─*There's always an edge case, like the physically disabled person living with their economically disadvantaged parents out in the country 40km from the job they just got. OK, maybe they should make car payments.
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[14:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score:1) 02There is no firm definition of "continent" - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:25] <exec> 08└─And if there were it would probably not be helpful. Highly relevant CPG Grey video: "What are Continents?" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What? - 06Here’s What Happens When You Add Scent to Virtual Reality - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:33] <exec> 08└─Here’s What Happens When You Add Scent to Virtual Reality? The porn becomes really weird ...
[14:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Srlnclt - 06Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-dormant Life - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:06] <exec> 08└─Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-dormant Life
[14:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you spell... - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:20] <exec> 08└─Preferably using lowercase letters.
[14:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Big deal - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:27] <exec> 08└─There aren't many communists in China either. Just people who call themselves communists. I'm pretty sure Marx wouldn't approve of the current Chinese government.
[14:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Alien life - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:00] <exec> 08└─Cthulhu has developed eczema. The chunk is actually one of his skin flakes. I know, ewww, right?
[14:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Contrarian - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:18] <exec> 08└─The more these companies consolidate, the more i move in the other direction of not wanting to do business with them at all. After the last merger i stopped buying toothpaste and started brushing my teeth with salt, baking soda, and drops of mint extract. They're the active ingredients in the whiten...
[14:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:''Trump won because he was NOT Hillary'' - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:40] <exec> 08└─Is it that Americans have the attention span of a gnat or that most people do not hang on every word coming from hyperventilating TV reporters, because they have better things to do? There has arisen a conceit that those who do not buy into the media narrative are ignorant Philistines. To those who...
[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Usury - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:29] <exec> 08└─You're conflating usury (taking money in exchange for providing access to capital) with fractional reserve banking. Fractional reserve banking is a mechanism that allows the supply of money to grow at the same rate as the economy. It's generally worked pretty well, though when the economy contracts...
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[15:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Heard of this before - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:18] <exec> 08└─I read a very interesting book a few years ago - can't remember the name - but it argued for a large continent of which NZ is a part. If I recall correctly, it posited that NZ itself sank and re-emerged later minus the land creatures.
[15:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:What? - 06Here’s What Happens When You Add Scent to Virtual Reality - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:26] <exec> 08└─"A real female of course, smells, is dirty... of course because its a human being, it has lots of things. So we have this anime, isn't it clean and pretty?" - (Masturbation Champion, https://youtu.be) [youtu.be]
[15:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02A whole to meaning - 06Here’s What Happens When You Add Scent to Virtual Reality - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:29] <exec> 08└─This will put a whole new meaning to the saying: "This game stinks!"
[15:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmmm - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:51] <exec> 08└─A Manhattan is a cocktail made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters.(according to wikipedia) I guess it would depend on how small you fold them, as to 'how many football fields' you could put in a cocktail glass? Anymore silly questions?
[15:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:26] <exec> 08└─They could interfere in military commerce, sure. If they can't stop the selling of arms, how can they possibly stop war? Warring countries want to buy, selfish countries want to sell: NATO steps in and says no, warring countries have to resort to clubs, NATO stops the war. But this won't happen beca...
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[16:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Suggestion - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:19] <exec> 08└─" Instead, it will be a different thing. But what is that thing? And will audiences trained in passive linear narrative—where scene follows scene like beads on a string, and the string always pulls us forward—appreciate what the thing might be? "
[16:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suggestion - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:20] <exec> 08└─How about more like those Scandinavian detectives, where you walk along with the murder scene, notice that one important thing in the grass before the detectives do... something along those lines (extra hints that the detectives don't notice, but might give you a lead on the murderer).
[16:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Not a new problem - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:23] <exec> 08└─Hollywood for years had no idea what to do with 3D, and I'd argue they still really don't. 3D is a novelty that's placed on top of a movie that's "really" a 2D movie. Even movies shot with a 3D camera (as opposed to movies where 3D is layered on in post) generally are "2D first," and the framing, ci...
[16:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a new problem - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:25] <exec> 08└─But 3D is very different from VR. 3D (compared to 2D) does not change the telling of the story; the director (you know, the egotistical maniac who thinks (s)he's a genius) retains full control over what you see and how you see it, the storyline is still fully under their control. VR changes that in...
[16:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score:1) 02Re:Not a new problem - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:27] <exec> 08└─The whole thinking behind a movie experience is totally opposed to what VR is. Movies are all about constructing a fixed point of view experience, an experience fully controlled by producers and directors. VR is all about the user experience, the interactivity, the custom POV. VR makes zero sense fo...
[16:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is no firm definition of "continent" - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:36] <exec> 08└─By the commonly accepted definition Zealandia is a dwarf continent.
[16:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Redundant) 02Re:Heard of this before - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:39] <exec> 08└─If only New Zealand could sink and re-emerge without the Maori.
[16:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So basically - 06Gates Foundation Reaches Deal to Publish Articles in Paywalled Science Journals - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:11] <exec> 08└─Paid advertisments for the Gates foundation bullshit of the week I guess.
[16:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yikes - 06Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-dormant Life - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:23] <exec> 08└─Why does this sound like the lead in to a bad SyFy movie?
[16:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yikes - 06Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-dormant Life - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:24] <exec> 08└─Why does this sound like the lead in to a SyFy movie?
[16:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big deal - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:46] <exec> 08└─Don't explain the jokes, please.
[16:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Big deal - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:47] <exec> 08└─There have been stories in the regular media, and discussed here, about Russian involvement, or interest, or interference, in other nations' politics and political process. Yes, I'm talking about the DNC and HRC stuff (which Assange still denies came from the Russians, if you find him credible) and...
[16:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To cmn32480 - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:06] <exec> 08└─I guess you need to hire someone that can do this at a salary appropriate for the position? I've done stuff that got altered after I put careful time into it as well, and ended up disappointed with what happened to my work, but come on, the editors here are free and do this as a service. Your propos...
[16:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Coolway and just be spent on internal so - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:37] <exec> 08└─My point was that while the US is consistently one of the largest spenders by any metric, they are not actually the largest spender in any other metric than total spend which, given the US has the largest GDP by far, perhaps isn't the best metric. I was basically furthering Frojack's point; a vast s...
[16:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score:1) 02Re:Calling Darwin - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:15] <exec> 08└─In Canada, supposedly, Muslims want the right to not have to wear helmets on a motorcycle.
[16:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling Darwin - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:16] <exec> 08└─No http://www.citynews.ca [citynews.ca] I just didn't want to have to Google and format the URL on a tablet. Of course you could have just googled it yourself................ Kawumpasayswhat?
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[17:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02String pulling narrative theory - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:25] <exec> 08└─scene follows scene like beads on a string, and the string always pulls us forward
[17:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Be like modern video games? - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:27] <exec> 08└─Seems games like Mass Effect and other RPG games is the model to follow regarding VR.
[17:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score:2) 02Holodeck - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:29] <exec> 08└─Someone never watched Star Trek..
[17:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Of all the names they could come up with... - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:40] <exec> 08└─... they come up with something uncreative as "Zealandia".
[17:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Another potential trigger for overeating? - 06Here’s What Happens When You Add Scent to Virtual Reality - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:50] <exec> 08└─The summary seems really focused on food smells, as is the Technology Review article, which starts out talking about the smell of doughnuts: I almost ate a foam doughnut the other day because a virtual-reality experiment had me convinced it was real. I was in the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at St...
[17:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Another potential trigger for overeating? - 06Here’s What Happens When You Add Scent to Virtual Reality - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:52] <exec> 08└─As somebody who has dated plenty of fat girls, I have to say that the worst thing about them is that they prefer having food-scents everywhere. For example, skinny women generally prefer to wear floral scents or burn pine or lavender-scented candles, or perhaps have a few ceder planks scattered thro...
[17:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Or - 06Here’s What Happens When You Add Scent to Virtual Reality - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:54] <exec> 08└─Just make the veggie burger taste and smell like the real thing.. ?
[17:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02insulation? - 06Europe's "Virgo" Gravitational Wave Detector Suffers From "Microcracks" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:03] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there is a coating for the glass fibers that doesn't initiate cracks? What is used to sheathe fiber optic cables?
[17:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:3, Funny) 02I can hear my cyber-grandpa now... - 06Triangulene Synthesized - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:11] <exec> 08└─"Back in my day, we had to make our molecules by HAND, one at a time!"
[17:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:the RED MENACE STRIKE AGAIN - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:43] <exec> 08└─Agreed. If we could nuke LA and San Francisco, California would be paradise-on-Earth. The real shame is that there are a lot of centrist and right-leaning areas scattered about, but all of the policy decisions are made from San Francisco. I don't believe that California should secede, but should spl...
[17:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Interesting, yes . . . - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 2428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:57] <exec> 08└─Russia is a big, powerful nation. Their old government went bankrupt, and they are no longer a "superpower", but they are still huge and powerful. It would be pretty amazing if they DID NOT attempt to influence politics, policies, and more around the world. The US and UK, and their fan club, certain...
[17:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Big deal - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:58] <exec> 08└─Bahhh, I gave you the wrong link for Assassin's Mace - try this one: https://nypost.com [nypost.com]
[17:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:To cmn32480 - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 2243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:19] <exec> 08└─In my opinion, some fragment identifiers are worthwhile. Others are, as I said, cruft. Often the #content fragment will hide things like a title bar, which, in many cases seems to be an attempt to hide the source of the of the content. This is particularly useful to a submitter who has sources that...
[17:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:''part of one of Nature's cycles'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─I question the amount of height the sea level is claimed to change, as the oceans are already a very big place and changing their level is going to require an awful lot of water.
[17:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02I Love Trader Joe's!!! - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─And so does seemingly frickin' everybody else where I live because they're always packed! Big chains, can you please go bankrupt more quickly to make room for more TJ's? You are figuratively poisoning your customers with some of that junk you push.
[17:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, the "other one," of course, as we all know.
[17:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:inhumanity? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:47] <exec> 08└─you are not a troll, just stupid and ignorant which meddles with your capability to give meaning to reality
[17:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03McGruber [3038] (Score:2) 02Re:My Pothole - 06Ford Developing Pothole Alert System for Drivers - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:17] <exec> 08└─I have a "pothole" directly in front of my place. Well, not exactly a pothole - it's a water hydrant covered with a lid. The road got resurfaced, and instead of the lid sitting flush with the road surface, the lid now sits about two centimetres below the surface, in a lightly-dished well approximate...
[17:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Top-tier life advice -all yours- absolutely fre - 06Americans Struggle to Pay Auto Loans - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:28] <exec> 08└─"but you can live fairly well when you take a "fuck you and go to hell" attitude towards women." Here, here. That is not misogyny any more than saying "fuck you and go to hell" to the men of the world we say that to every single day is misandry.
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[18:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a new problem - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:37] <exec> 08└─constructing a fixed point of view experience
[18:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a new problem - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:39] <exec> 08└─"Hollywood for years had no idea what to do with 3D, and I'd argue they still really don't. 3D is a novelty that's placed on top of a movie that's "really" a 2D movie. Even movies shot with a 3D camera (as opposed to movies where 3D is layered on in post) generally are "2D first," and the framing, c...
[18:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:String pulling narrative theory - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:42] <exec> 08└─Huh. An XKCD comic that's actually worth looking at. Bra-VO.
[18:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So what if they have no idea? - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:46] <exec> 08└─The last time VR was a fad in the 90's it was pretty clear it would only ever be useful in a pretty narrow range of applications, you want it to be movie like entertainment? call me when you have a holodeck
[18:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:So what if they have no idea? - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:48] <exec> 08└─The last time VR was a fad in the 90's it was pretty clear it would only ever be useful in a pretty narrow range of applications
[18:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:So what if they have no idea? - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:50] <exec> 08└─I think there is a world market for maybe five VRs.
[18:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 2029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:53] <exec> 08└─What is VR? That hasn't been nailed down yet. Now what I am thinking Hollywood will sell that might actually work is stream out multiple HD (Maybe 3D) streams and you get to pick your character to watch and switch during the movie. That fixes that whole PITA moving position and rendering thing. If y...
[18:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:55] <exec> 08└─pr0n will work pretty well Which medium of communication doesn't it work well in?
[18:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:57] <exec> 08└─Morse code?
[18:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:59] <exec> 08└─theology texts? feminist propaganda? childrens picture books? I'm not sure its ever been tried in university level math and science textbooks, I'd like to participate in that research.
[18:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Informative) 02An arbitrary line - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:11] <exec> 08└─First off, the issue isn't new, nor is the name Zealandia. A quick internet search shows people arguing about this a decade ago, and the name has been around since at least a 1995 article by American geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk. The Guardian article [theguardian.com] covering this story actually adm...
[18:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Define Continent - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:12] <exec> 08└─"If you could pull the plug on the world's oceans, then Zealandia would probably long ago have been recognized as a continent," says team leader Nick Mortimer
[18:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:So basically - 06Gates Foundation Reaches Deal to Publish Articles in Paywalled Science Journals - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:50] <exec> 08└─Paid advertisments for the Gates foundation bullshit of the week I guess.
[18:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02starts with "C", ends with "a" - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:28] <exec> 08└─OFFICIAL SAMPLE BALLOT ☑ join Russian Federation ☑ restore 1849 constitution
[18:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Contrarian - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:24] <exec> 08└─One of the most shocking (but informative) talks I ever went to was a talk by one of the Unilever product research and development scientists. He have a fairly unvarnished talk about how the company develops products and the business concerns and ethics involved. None of these big conglomerates are...
[18:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Synergy! - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:27] <exec> 08└─Kraft foods and Unilever cleaning products will be engineered in tandem. Spill Kraft food on your clothes, and only a Unilever cleaner will be able to remove the stain.
[18:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:''Trump won because he was NOT Hillary'' - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:50] <exec> 08└─I don't dispute most of what you said, but it is intriguing what you choose to complain about. Ronnie Raygun's decision to stop enforcing the Fairness Doctrine (and O'Bummer's scrubbing it from the books) signaled to them that actual reporting/analysis is optional.
[18:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:inhumanity? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:24] <exec> 08└─Why do you othink all those 10+ story buildings, that the evil commies constructed, were filled as soon as they finished? Like the House of Soviets in Kaliningrad and the Palace of Soviets in Moscow, for example?
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[19:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02enviroment - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:19] <exec> 08└─This will happen the day after we tax imported goods from countries that don't respect our environmental laws, in other words probably never. Maybe the God Emperor will do it... all hope of survival rests in the God Emperor's hands.
[19:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02correction - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:20] <exec> 08└─That's God Emperror. A yuge, yuge, emperror.
[19:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:22] <exec> 08└─At first this seemed like a great idea to me, an extra yearly penalty for using robots instead of workers. But the employer is paying that tax to the government, the amount that the company is paying will go up. I am thinking of a company that: -makes random product -10 employees -50 employee equivi...
[19:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:25] <exec> 08└─I am concerned with this giving companies more political influence because of greater share of taxes.
[19:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:27] <exec> 08└─am concerned with this giving companies more political influence because of greater share of taxes.
[19:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:29] <exec> 08└─Robots that 'steal' jobs should drive prices down. A tax would just be passed down to us.
[19:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doh! - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:31] <exec> 08└─Robots that 'steal' jobs should drive prices down. A tax would just be passed down to us.
[19:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Day late, dollar short - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 2061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:33] <exec> 08└─>"Exactly how you'd do it, measure it, you know, it's interesting for people to start talking about now," Gates said. "Some of it can come on the profits that are generated by the labor-saving efficiency there. Some of it can come directly in some type of robot tax. I don't think the robot companies...
[19:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Day late, dollar short - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 1529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:35] <exec> 08└─If you control the message you can partially shape the response. If he said corporations would be outraged, F-this, then I am sure they will be happy to pile on. But when everyone reads that taxing robot workers is OK, the expectation can be set that this is a normal and just thing to do. He is cont...
[19:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wumbler [1680] (Score:2, Interesting) 02How to determine the taxes? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:38] <exec> 08└─The practicalities of this are going to be difficult. How do you determine what is a robot? How do you determine how many workers were replaced? How do you tell apart the effect of robots from the effect of general efficiency improvements in production processes? Auditors? This could cause endless s...
[19:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02check his meds? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:40] <exec> 08└─Has someone checked his meds? He's making some quite poorly thought out comments recently. Then again, that appears to be a trend....
[19:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:check his meds? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:42] <exec> 08└─It must be something in the water. Better check the EPA... oops.
[19:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:check his meds? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:44] <exec> 08└─> Then again, that appears to be a trend.... Which you seem to have joined with your vapid complaint.
[19:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Reporting from the future - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:46] <exec> 08└─Read SoylentNews articles from the future with SoylentNews+! Free sample: Robot tax and UBI zapped from Europarl robot report [soylentnews.org]
[19:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Robots pay for UBI - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:48] <exec> 08└─So the Robots should pay for my Universal Basic Income. I guess that in some regard makes some sense otherwise I don't know who would be able to buy all the products the robots would make. At the same time then, what other machines are we going to tax that taxes away human jobs? Beyond the sales tax...
[19:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Let's see - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:51] <exec> 08└─How many jobs has MS Excel eliminated? Let's tax Ms for that. How many jobs has Office eliminated? Let's tax MS for that. How many American jobs has that H1b Visa thing eliminated? Tax the feck out of MS for that! Dog Gates can be an idiot: he's correct, but keeps mum about what affects HIM. He's pr...
[19:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Be like modern video games? - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:15] <exec> 08└─Seems games like Mass Effect and other RPG games is the model to follow regarding VR.
[19:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:24] <exec> 08└─theology texts?
[19:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:So basically - 06Gates Foundation Reaches Deal to Publish Articles in Paywalled Science Journals - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:16] <exec> 08└─More specifically, they paid "six figures for public access to its articles from a few journals, for a handful of articles published in 2017". That is on top of whatever fees the Science journals normally charge per paper. Low thousands of dollars, I assume (average should be around $2,200 [nature.c...
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:1) 02I live in California. When this topic comes up... - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─When this topic comes up I'll try something like: "If you wanna do that, I know some good ol' boys who got a flag they ain't usin' any more... at least not too often anyway. They might let ya borrow it". It's at this point that I hope they'll learn the lesson that history supposedly taught us. I can...
[19:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''The text after the # is not sent to the serve - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:19] <exec> 08└─OTOH, as AC #468854 notes above, some sites are adding an identifier to the URL they return as what, at first glance, appears to be a #FragmentIdentifier. The ones I've noticed have a dot right after the crunch, then a 8-character or so alphanumeric string. ...so I'm skeptical about the claim.
[19:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism at work - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:50] <exec> 08└─This is where the Umbrella Corporation begins. If you weren't already a bat-shit crazy "prepper", then I suggest you start stocking up on water, beans and bog roll.
[19:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:inhumanity? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:47] <exec> 08└─I for one am glad that at least a million people didnt die. But who knows how many of the 30 million possible conscripts and 5 million soldiers would have had to die before their government surrendered.
[19:12:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02Not all sunshine and rainbows. - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 3717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:15] <exec> 08└─I would agree with Mattis, the 2% recommendation should be fulfilled by all that want to be in NATO. From what I have read it was downplayed a bit just the day after, included in that I have seen that Norway has already said they won't bring it up to 2% any time soon - their current 2020 projection...
[19:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The must have better drivers. - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:29] <exec> 08└─FWIW: that's been my observation as well. They are usually the heavyset black women with loads of attitude. I think they purposefully go slow so that they can make some kind of personal statement about how important they are.
[19:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wumbler [1680] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Calling Darwin - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:37] <exec> 08└─Oh dear! Someone didn't do their homework. Sikhs are NOT Muslims. Sikhism is its own religion: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In today's lesson we learned: Just because someone has (typically) darker skin, and (typically) wears a turban and might (typically) have a beard, that...
[19:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling Darwin - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:39] <exec> 08└─Wow... Drama much? My faux pas. I will go kill myself now.
[19:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Calling Darwin - 06Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies' - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:41] <exec> 08└─So are you backing off your morally superior "supposedly" criticism post because you caught him on a technicality? It seems to me that your original high-horsiness statement applies whether he's talking about muslims or sikhs.
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[20:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:correction - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:36] <exec> 08└─All hail Darth Cheeto. Blessed be His Orangeness.
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:39] <exec> 08└─Have to disagree. We've just seen the political influence that we don't have used to elect Cheeto Jesus. Hillary was the candidate of big money and influence selling this time around. Not that I'm saying CJ won't sell influence. I'm just saying that we absolutely knew Hillary would and roughly to wh...
[20:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:check his meds? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:50] <exec> 08└─> Then again, that appears to be a trend....
[20:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Billy - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:54] <exec> 08└─Is Billy paying his fair share in taxes?
[20:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Billy - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:56] <exec> 08└─Well, probably moreso than the president. Of course, we can't prove that...
[20:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Amusing... - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:58] <exec> 08└─I find the whole discussion rather amusing. According to the St. Louis Fed [stlouisfed.org]: Consumer spending accounts for a majority of spending in all advanced nations. What makes the U.S. experience of recent decades unusual is that the share of consumer spending in GDP was relatively high alrea...
[20:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Gates Error - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:00] <exec> 08└─Gates is a Unitedstatesian who has done a lot of good things, such as benefits through the B and M Gates Foundation. The Gates foundation has donated something like 28 billion dollars to charity. "Billion" is a large number. For perspective, that is just about enough to fill every building of the Li...
[20:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02"steal" versus "create" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:03] <exec> 08└─I see once again that the argument about robots is completely misaligned. For starters, it is once again completely ignored that automation even up to the very cutting edge present, continues to improve our working environment and increase wages, just as it has for the past several centuries (if it...
[20:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They took our jobs! - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:05] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the narrative they are good for the economy and only take the jobs nobody wants? Now suddenly having no jobs is (big surprise) a problem?
[20:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:They took our jobs! - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:07] <exec> 08└─Different people, different narrative. (But the first narrative was dubious from the start, and more effort goes into eliminating more expensive work.)
[20:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suggestion - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:22] <exec> 08└─You are a very unimaginative and ill informed person.. It will be many things (unless it fails) and I think this is obvious to anyone with an IQ over 100. Certain types of "story" games like "The Walking Dead" and others have already shown us what the interactive movie experience will tend towards....
[20:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:40] <exec> 08└─And semaphore.
[20:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hollywood has no idea - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:43] <exec> 08└─Hollywood Has No Idea
[20:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is no firm definition of "continent" - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:54] <exec> 08└─I am not sure why they would call it "Zealandia"; apart from racial bias of course. Papa-tu-a-Nuku would be a better name since the New Zealand Maori legend of Maui "fishing" up a portion of Papa-tu-a-Nuku which became NZ. Rather appropriate story it turns out. http://www.maori.org.nz
[20:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:Of all the names they could come up with... - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:59] <exec> 08└─Indeed, continents should have a name that begins and ends with the same letter. Two acceptable suggestions are "Noozeelun", which is spelt the way it's pronounced, and "Andawotta", which literally describes the continent.
[20:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting, yes . . . - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:18] <exec> 08└─One of my favorite things said by Trump so far was that deal with OReilly calling Putin a killer -You think we're so innocent?
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:To cmn32480 - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the explanation. I'd never heard the # part of a link called a fragment marker before.
[20:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:''part of one of Nature's cycles'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, but it's doubtful that all of Antarctica will melt (not that that was claimed in this article, but I've seen some...). What I noticed missing in the summary is any estimate of how long it would take the glacier to move out to being an ice-shelf. There probably isn't a decent prediction, but it'...
[20:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:37] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but the Republicans are currently the party of anti-science. The Democrats are no shining angels, but avoided blatant lies about scientific matters most of the time.
[20:12:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Defend from who? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, I recognize that you are serious. And, you are also right. But, as England discovered, empire is costly. We can't afford to maintain the hegemony, especially with America's wealth being steadily leached away by the megacorporations moving to China, or anyplace else with no regulation, no taxes,...
[20:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:48] <exec> 08└─We all need to pay our fair share,
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[21:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:27] <exec> 08└─When the government is essentially your organization's only customer, then your organization is not really "private". That is to say, when the bulk of your funding comes from stealing other people's resources under threat of violence, then you are not really operating in the "private" sector.
[21:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sure you are! - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:28] <exec> 08└─We call it the Private-er sector :) It's an important and wholesome part of capitalism with the full backing of the state, until legally proven otherwise :)
[21:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Uhm - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:36] <exec> 08└─Like so many things we take for granted, wiper design turns out to be a surprisingly nuanced rabbit hole once you take a moment to notice it, with no two cars seeming to have the same configuration. It's fun to imagine an army of industrious wiper elves coming up with just the right design to provid...
[21:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhm - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:38] <exec> 08└─I don't even have to imagine it. I've got those little elf slaves doing all of my chores. Tax robots as much as you want!
[21:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:correction - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:50] <exec> 08└─I sense heresy.
[21:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02No Clothes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:51] <exec> 08└─Will you be the first to tell the god emperror that he has no clothes?
[21:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SleazyRidr [882] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the business won't have wage expenses to write off, so they'll end up paying more tax. Gates made a completely useless statement.
[21:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:01] <exec> 08└─Robots that 'steal' jobs should drive prices down. A tax would just be passed down to us.
[21:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Day late, dollar short - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:05] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem I see is how to quantify "worker equivalent units". Should a clothing manufacturing robot be compared to a human with a needle and thread, or with a basic sewing machine, or with an advanced sewing machine? And what skill level of worker? Also, if corporate profits were taxed app...
[21:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:check his meds? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:13] <exec> 08└─I glanced at that story but forgot to submit it. My brain must have been subconsciously protecting me from being Zucked up.
[21:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Billy - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:20] <exec> 08└─:) Thanks! Made me laugh!
[21:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggestion - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:41] <exec> 08└─Games like Warcraft have shown us what interactive worlds will be like.
[21:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be like modern video games? - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:51] <exec> 08└─Elder Scrolls games, Fallout, GTA? Big open world games...
[21:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:01] <exec> 08└─. - .. -- ... --- .-.-.-.-.-.....------------
[21:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:What? - 06Here’s What Happens When You Add Scent to Virtual Reality - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:28] <exec> 08└─Wow, I envy their relationship a little.
[21:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:So basically - 06Gates Foundation Reaches Deal to Publish Articles in Paywalled Science Journals - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:00] <exec> 08└─That is on top of whatever fees the Science journals normally charge per paper. Low thousands of dollars, I assume (average should be around $2,200).
[21:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To cmn32480 - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 3694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:04] <exec> 08└─Often the #content fragment will hide things like a title bar I block a great deal of junk in my browser. If I have ever linked to a page that does what you described, I regret that. I make an effort to avoid such situations. When I come across a page that does ridiculous nonsense with their present...
[21:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''UNLESS you have javascript enabled'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:09] <exec> 08└─Now, see there. Some might have thought that this (sub)thread wandered away from the original topic and is a distraction, but it's getting some useful information posted. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:''part of one of Nature's cycles'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:19] <exec> 08└─I didn't see a mention of a "300 foot rise in sea level."
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[22:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure you are! - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:30] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the law can be ... interpreted ... in the favor of our corporate overlords?
[22:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:32] <exec> 08└─Leaving aside the governmental "theft" issue, this is one of the best uses I can think of for my tax dollars.
[22:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you're willing, it's not a tax; it's a trade. - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:34] <exec> 08└─Then, for you, that money is not a tax; it's just a fee that you choose to pay willingly for a service that you want.
[22:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:3, Informative) 02SpaceX Performs Gov't AND Private Launches - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:36] <exec> 08└─When the government is essentially your organization's only customer, then your organization is not really "private". That is to say, when the bulk of your funding comes from stealing other people's resources under threat of violence, then you are not really operating in the "private" sector.
[22:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Curved or bent makes sense, but not opposing - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:46] <exec> 08└─On others, the arms are mounted at opposite sides of the car and face each other in the center of the windshield.
[22:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:02] <exec> 08└─Have to disagree. We've just seen the political influence that we don't have used to elect Cheeto Jesus. Hillary was the candidate of big money and influence selling this time around. Not that I'm saying CJ won't sell influence. I'm just saying that we absolutely knew Hillary would and roughly to wh...
[22:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:09] <exec> 08└─Robots that 'steal' jobs should drive prices down. A tax would just be passed down to us.
[22:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:"steal" versus "create" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:28] <exec> 08└─And of course, no mention of the jobs that would be created in the process.
[22:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about the robots who steal human women? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:32] <exec> 08└─What should we do to them?
[22:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Suggestion - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:50] <exec> 08└─Sod-off, you faggot-fuck.
[22:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:So what if they have no idea? - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:06] <exec> 08└─Blonde, Brunette, Redhead, and .... ?
[22:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no firm definition of "continent" - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:24] <exec> 08└─I think there should be a firm definition of continent. "Continents" are geologically very different from the other potential "land surface", ocean floors. That is to say, the geology at any one spot on the planet is either continent (basically a large chunk of various felsic rock types) or ocean (b...
[22:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02From the obvious department - 06Europe's "Virgo" Gravitational Wave Detector Suffers From "Microcracks" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:54] <exec> 08└─What has hobbled the 3-kilometer-long observatory: glass threads just 0.4 millimeters thick, which have proved unexpectedly fragile
[22:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:So basically - 06Gates Foundation Reaches Deal to Publish Articles in Paywalled Science Journals - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:16] <exec> 08└─Oops -- I'll just note Science Advances actually charges [sciencemag.org] $3450 or $4600 depending on the type of open license. I misread their statement about "average" publication costs of $2900/$3000, which apparently are based on averages AFTER various discounts are offered.
[22:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Merger called off - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:03] <exec> 08└─The BBC is reporting that Kraft have withdrawn their takeover bid: http://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk]
[22:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Great news! - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:41] <exec> 08└─I sincerely hope that politicians that offer opinions on topics of scientific significance will lose both their jobs and their credentials. All hail the whistleblowers!
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[23:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Interesting) 02nice choice of words but - 06Square-Mile Street Network Visualization - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:15] <exec> 08└─> Rome has a fine-grained, complex, organic... Insight from chaotic visuals is called divination, so maybe you can see the future in it. Friendly reminder that modern city planning in Italy is bribe driven. My city needed parking places, especially after they turned existing ones in green areas (few...
[23:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:29] <exec> 08└─Actually, over half of their launches have been commercial satellites. Out of 30 Falcon 9 flights, they have had 14.5 government (one for a non-US government), 15.5 commercial (flight 4 carried both NASA and Orbcomm payloads), and one internal test.
[23:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:30] <exec> 08└─This is a legitimate comment; just because you disagree does not make it worthy of the label "troll". ------ When the government is essentially your organization's only customer, then your organization is not really "private". That is to say, when the bulk of your funding comes from stealing other p...
[23:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:3, Funny) 02Bad advice! - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:41] <exec> 08└─Don't get hypnotized by your wipers, keep your eyes on the road!
[23:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:59] <exec> 08└─most folks attention span is less than ten minutes.
[23:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:01] <exec> 08└─most folks attention span is less than ten minutes.
[23:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:03] <exec> 08└─We've just seen the political influence that we don't have used to elect Cheeto Jesus.
[23:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02I KNEW IT - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:32] <exec> 08└─Two things are certain, death of batteries and taxes. Anyway I did not steal your jobs, I downloaded them. Anyway mr. Gates, you had half of a good idea. But let us see who steals jobs. Amazon, Ikea et all steal from mall that steals from supermarket that steals from mom and pop shop and one man bus...
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:From the obvious department - 06Europe's "Virgo" Gravitational Wave Detector Suffers From "Microcracks" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:54] <exec> 08└─Nobody expects the gentle dust grains to be the silent killer.
[23:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''height the sea level is claimed to change'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:35] <exec> 08└─Those among us who are hundreds of feet up [google.com] on a chunk of rock might easily poo-poo what may or may not happen. For some of our neighbors living in a sandy coastal area, [google.com] however, this could be life-altering stuff. the Biblical flood of Noah's time Clearly not a global event....
[23:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Unilever Magnum - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:54] <exec> 08└─And with a hell of a yeast infection too, ugh. Food does not go there. And no, thankfully, I don't know this firsthand, I just read.
[23:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Synergy! - 06Kraft Heinz Proposes a $143 Billion Bid for Unilever - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:05] <exec> 08└─So they'll be making a floor wax that doubles as a dessert topping then?
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